Kerz wrote:Downloading kills music and that is a fact. You can say the prices are high and i kinda agrea on that but records where never cheap.
You pay for the time invested by the artist in developing their skill wich take years of hard work. You pay for their creativitie.
Maby the cut record company's take is to high? They invest a lot and want their money back not so strange?
You kill your local record stores expecially the smaller ones who mostly invest alot in the rarer stuff. Big supermarkets will sell the Celine Dion CD but if you want a Soundgarden they smile at you and say "who"'?
Record company's loose money because of it so they dont invest in new bands. Artist sell less cd's meaning the record company's wont invest in their new album because the sales where not high enough.Concert ticket prices went up sky high because artist loose money also and their fans pay the price.
Only the commercial stuff gets a change nowadays . And thats for me, being a music freak, the music i mostly dont give a shit about. And i dont wanne talk about the quality of downloaded music wich is crap imo.
Same deal with games imo, sold 100.000 downloaded 250.000 times means no part 2 of that game. And if 350.000 where sold their would be a part 2.
So download if you want but it will and allready has consequenses.
The ideal Kerz, would be to take all of the non-artistic elements out of the equation, sound software being readly available, means of commercializing it too, we are not far of only paying for the real value of music. As it stands there are still a lot of non-talented people making profit for some talented peoples work (Nothing bad here just an arcaic way of doing things). The internet can cut off a lof of those lost euros. Not necessarily by downloading it for free but as a starting point for the so called "not so well known artists" to be known. It is the beggining as we stand. But expect things to get worse for the record labels and for the people selling it as artists are closer to be self sufficient. Since the price of a well produced CD is still influenced by the profit made by this "redundant" way of commercializing music, and, we stand in between this bit of progress, donwloading for free is more of a consequence than a disadvantage, being more of a warning of times to come.
Complicating is the true path to simplicity.
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